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“Saturday Night Live” poked fun at the billionaire space race in a new sketch that aired this weekend, with Owen Wilson playing Jeff Bezos aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft. The sketch, titled “Billionaire Star Trek,” follows Bezos and his crew that flew in the company’s real-life inaugural space launch in July. The sketch is jokingly said to be part of the “Star Trek” franchise with a new series titled “Stark Trek: Ego Quest.” “Space is freaking awesome,” Wilson says, wearing the Amazon founder’s signature cowboy hat. A voiceover then gives more detail on the billionaire’s “crew of random weirdos,” which include Bezos’ brother, a “rich kid from the Netherlands” and “82-year-old astronaut Wally Funk.” Fellow billionaire Richard Branson, played by “SNL” cast member Alex Moffat, then floats ...

“Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk said that it took him almost a decade to pitch and create the K-drama series due to its “bizarre” concept. The survival series, which aired on Netflix on September 17, follows a group of 456 people heavily in debt who play life or death games in the hopes of winning a massive cash prize. In an interview with The Korea Times published last week, the filmmaker shared the struggles of creating series, which he said field like a “roller coaster ride.” He told the outlet that he actually came up with the concept in 2008 and wrote the script a year later, though it took over a decade for the show to finally air because of its “bizarre” plot. “Making the story into the series was still an adventure, just as it was about a decade ago.  I knew that it...

After the much-anticipated release of Seinfeld on Netflix, fans of the shows seem to be majorly disappointed with the way the streaming giant has aired the show. Various viewers have taken to Twitter to comment on the fact that Netflix neglected to keep the original 4:3 aspect ratio and used 16:9 instead. Rolling Stone pointed out that the 16:9 ratio offers a more “modern look,” since the standard widescreen would make it more suitable for view on high-definition TVs. Unfortunately for Seinfeld fans that means that the switch from the full-screen mode or square screen quite literally means that some of the most iconic jokes from the show are cut off. Audiences were quick to point out that the famous scene from season eight’s “The Pothole” episode had lost its punchline as the pothole in qu...

Amazon has released the trailer for its upcoming documentary, Justin Bieber: Our World. The film follows global pop sensation, Justin Bieber, as his team readies to put on a record-breaking performance for New Year’s Eve 2020 at the top of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The film gives fans an intimate look at how Bieber and his team prepared for the monumental performance for 240 in-person guests and millions of fans across the world via livestream. The trailer discusses why Bieber decided to take a long hiatus from performing, citing that it was best for his health at the time. Audiences get a sneak peek of Bieber’s private life as well as how he prepares for his on-stage performances. Justin Bieber: Our World is not the first documentary from Bieber. In 2011, he released Justin Bieber: Never ...

Daniel Craig will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just ahead of the U.S. release of the much-anticipated No Time To Die. Variety reports that Craig is the fourth James Bond actor to receive the star, following David Niven, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. Barry Nelson who also played Bond in a TV movie also has a star on the Walk of Fame. No Time To Die marks Craig’s fifth and final film of the James Bond franchise. His star will is set to be next to Moore’s plaque. In a statement from Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she shared, “Daniel Craig is a British cultural icon, as is James Bond, the man he has portrayed in five 007 films. We are thrilled to place his terrazzo Walk of Fame star next to the star of another famed actor who also portrayed Jame...

Ahead of the release of Netflix‘s Army of Thieves film, Zack Snyder has teased a new trio of posters to show off the new team for the Army of the Dead prequel. The prequel follows safecracker, Ludwig Dieter, played by Matthis Schweighöfer, and is focused on the early days of Dieter’s career at the beginning of the zombie outbreak, six years prior to the events of Army of the Dead. Dieter is hired by a mysterious woman to pull off a heist and sees him partnering with a group of aspiring criminals. Snyder returns as a writer and producer while Schweighöfer directs the film. Different from Army of the Dead, Snyder’s new film is expected to feature fewer zombies, focusing more on the rom-com and heist elements of Dieter’s adventures. Last week, Snyder took to Twitter to spotlight the film, rel...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on Thursday became the first pandemic-era movie to cross $200 million USD at the North American box office, according to reports. The Marvel Studios and Disney film was released exclusively in theaters, as opposed to a simultaneous release with Disney+ Premier Access, which the company has done for other films released during the pandemic, including Black Widow.  Early last month, Shang-Chi set a new Labor Day box office record with a $90 million USD earning across four days. The film beat out 2007’s record holder Halloween, which raked in $30.6 million USD at the time. While unraveling the untold origin story of Shang-Chi, the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s first Chinese American protagonist, the film itself “shows the Asian-...

Fans of Squid Game may be excited — or horrified– to discover that the giant animatronic doll featured in the first episode of the Netflix K-drama series actually exists in real life. The innocent-looking figure plays a gruesome role in the survival show, introducing players to the first of several life-or-death challenges. As it turns out, the doll is real and was momentarily on display at a horse carriage museum called Macha Land, according to Newsweek. The museum is located in Jincheon County, about three hours outside of South Korea’s capital city of Seoul. The doll was originally manufactured for filming and stood outside the museum’s entrance up until a few days ago when its manufacturer decided to keep the doll. Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo reported that the doll was intended to be...

In a recent installment of GQ‘s “Undercover” series, Will Smith revealed what he considers to be the best and worst work of his acting career. “For the best,  I think it is a tie between the first Men in Black and The Pursuit of Happyness,” Smith said. “For different reasons, those are the two almost perfect movies.” In Men in Black, which ultimately turned into a wide-spanning franchise, Smith stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones as an agent of a secret organization that supervises extraterrestrial life on Earth. For The Pursuit of Happyness, Smith received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role as the homeless salesman Chris Gardner in the 2006 biographical drama. As for his worst film, Smith had a clear choice: Wild Wild West. “Wild Wild West is ju...

Following a two-year period of delays and postponements as a result of COVID-19, the 25th film in the James Bond series, No Time To Die, premiered in the U.K. earlier this week, with reports suggesting it made as much as $6.7 million USD. It’s no secret that cinema admissions across the U.K. have dropped considerably as a result of the pandemic, with a reported 44 million attendees throughout the whole 2020 — a sharp decline from the 176 million the year before. Despite these figures, early signs from Daniel Craig‘s final 007 outing certainly leaves room for optimism, with Universal also announcing it as the U.K.’s “widest theatrical release of all time” following screenings at 772 cinemas nationwide on Thursday — overtaking 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. While it may take some time ...

The telephone number featured on the mysterious business cards handed out in the Netflix K-drama “Squid Game” reportedly belongs to a Korean man who is being bombarded with late-night phone calls from people asking “to be in the game.” According to The Korea Times, a man in his 40s living in the Gyeonggi Province told Korean broadcaster MBC this week that he was receiving up to 4,000 phone calls per day, sometimes in the early hours of the morning. The man, who initially had not heard of the show, first thought they were spam calls. The man told MBC that he does not want to change his number, as he has used it for a decade and it is linked to his business. Netflix is said to be discussing the issue with the owner of the phone number and working toward a solution. W...